All the Day Long

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But the connection that Terrien and others draw between the language of the psalm and the events of the Babylonian invasion is not a necessary or compelling one.

There is a certain historical plausibility, too, about an imagined context of composition for the psalm in which considerations of covenant loyalty have dictated a foreign policy that has exposed the nation to vengeful reprisals from a neighbor, a suzerain-state or an imperial overlord. Within a context of this sort, the protest of the psalmist is that these events have come on the nation not because of their own sin but “because of you” (v.The main difficulty with this proposal is the sharp disparity between the psalm’s vigorous protestations of the nation’s innocence and the verdict of culpability that had been pronounced by Jeremiah and his prophetic predecessors (even as they lamented and protested at the severity of the divine sentence). Those who have ears to hear will hear and understand that the people of God, reckoned as sheep to be slaughtered, are suffering with Christ (Rom. That is what is required of the eschatological people of God; God’s elect must suffer and groan along with—and even behalf of—the unredeemed creation…. As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

The decision of the LXX translators to render both the עָל– of verse 22 and the לְמַעַן of verse 26 with the same preposition ( ἕνεκα/ ἕνεκεν), opens that door a little wider for readers who encounter the psalm in Greek rather than in Hebrew.Commentators offer widely divergent suggestions for the date of the psalm’s composition, ranging from the early monarchy to the Maccabean period, with a significant number gravitating toward a date of composition in the early exilic period, or in the years that immediately preceded the exile. Paul has made it clear that God's love is absolute, and God will fulfill His purpose for them: He will succeed in bringing them to glory. To fully understand 1 Corinthians 1:2, you need John 1:1, 14, and 17, John 3:16 and 34, and John 15:26. Christians are to voice that which creation is unable to articulate—and when that fails, know that the Spirit is able to articulate for us that which we can say neither for ourselves nor for a groaning creation. Clean pages with some ink marks,mark and light shelf wear on the outer edges,a couple of stain marks on the edges of the pages,previous owner's name and small inscription written on the edge of the front endpaper,some creases on the edges of the pages.

Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. Formerly everything was outward; we either walked according to our self-will, or we tried to do God's will according to our self-will. A more convincing reading of the psalm, therefore—both on its own terms and in terms of its relation to the surrounding context of the psalter and the Old Testament as a whole—is one that interprets it as a response not to the exile but to an unspecified event in the pre-exilic or post-exilic period, and takes its protestations of the nation’s covenant fidelity not as a rejection of the accusations of the prophets but as an expression of genuine bewilderment, voiced in the absence of any such accusations that might otherwise have explained the events that had transpired.

As the scripture says, "For your sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered. Spring was keen to train as a reporter, and was largely self-taught --he spent his leisure time learning shorthand and taking evening classes, where he studied English, French, Latin, mathematics and history. This short anthem was written in 1991 in memory of my South London neighbour and new friend, Alan Gravill, a rising concert pianist and prizewinner in the 1985 Carnegie Hall Competition (won by no less than Marc-André Hamelin).

It starred John Nolan as Nick and Prunella Gee as Anna, with Sharon Maughan making her TV debut as the glamorous and ambitious Rachel Rosing. According to the first viewpoint, which is presupposed or argued for by the majority of commentators, the function of the psalm citation in Romans 8:36 is to serve as proof for the proposition that sufferings are the expected lot of the people of God.I have spread out My hands all the day | To an apostate people, | Who are going in the way [that is] not good, | After their own thoughts.